This is evident in more than journalism. It is evident everywhere. Quite simply, we cannot rule ourselves which in this case means throttling back to a point where we can cope with the deluge of stimulus that technology has pressed upon us. As far as I can tell, the quality of goods and services across the board has gone down. Of course I'm looking at it from the bottom of the dung pile, so I expect for the time being, the elites are still getting some pretty good stuff. The WalMart crowd is getting stuff that used to go only to third world countries. Remember this: The only advantage the elites have is that they will be the last to starve.

Here in the flyover sector of the Galaxy, we use spacebucks to pick up space chicks at the space bar. Yee Haw!!!

THANK YOU MIKKO! After 9-11, the U.S. interdiction efforts quickly morphed from international terrorism to internations and domestic terrorism with equal emphasis placed on both. IMHO, the U.S. Govt is currently more concerned about domestic terrorism than about foreign operatives. Sorry Mikko, you are wrong on that count.

So they find some way to Scroogle it... Where there's a will, there's a way. Google has a lot of customers in the developer world, but I'm guessing they don't have that many friends.

Seattle is about to go nuts...

"Land of the free home of the brave has become land of decree and home of the slave." This isn''t mine. It belongs to a poster named Joe at thetruthaboutguns.com. So, thanks Joe

Actually, I think the peak for Ubuntu and Gnome 2 was 10.04 LTS. It was a sad day when that expired. OBTW: I'm now happily churning the LTS version of Mint Mate. Happy days, I can still get some work done...

Simply put, they don't trust us enough to use our system...and are willing to spend billions of Euros to prove it. Perhaps, maybe the GPS constellation should become a UN protectorate and no nation should be able to weaponize it... Just sayin'

[Frankly, i think I would rather they are off in the back of some parking lot, parked cruisers window to window]

That's called 69ing...

They do have another solution. Without ammunition, a gun is a very expensive stick.

No, no. The only thing worse than a Republican is a Democrat... and the only thing scarier than a bureaucrat with a gun is a bureaucrat in a robe.

Hey, I've eaten a few vegetarians in my life. They taste just fine...

I'd vote for hanging all of them...and their brother and sister too. Let God sort them out...

Well then, barred spirals must have mis-behaved in some way...

As far as I know, we are the only creatures on the planet that require the use of toilet paper. Yup, he did a number on us..., or did we come down from the trees and have to stand up to see the lions in the grasslands???